Joseph Clayton

Joseph Clayton (1868-1943) was an English freelance journalist and biographer. A writer of numerous books, he covered areas of trade union and socialist history, but also religious figures and history.

He was a Christian Socialist as an undergraduate at the University of Oxford. He became an organiser of the Independent Labour Party, and supported socialist causes. In 1896 he was an ILP member in Leeds.

He edited The New Age in 1907, successor to Arthur Compton-Rickett, before it was sold to a group backing A. R. Orage and Holbrook Jackson; Clayton knew Orage from the ILP. He was a convert to Catholicism in 1910. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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